Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition (Classical Memories/Modern Identitie)

Murnaghan, Sheila; Rosen, Ralph M.

ISBN 10: 0814254691 / ISBN 13: 9780814254691

Verlag: Ohio State University Press, 2018

Beschreibung

Print on Demand pp. 304.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 383823630

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition (Classical Memories/Modern Identitie)
• Verlag: Ohio State University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0814254691
• ISBN-13: 9780814254691
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into their own subversive, experimental practice. Seeking to transcend the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers found in their classical models both a venerable literary heritage and a discourse of sublimity through which to articulate their desire for purity.
 
In this volume, a diverse group of contributors explore for the first time the fascinating tensions and paradoxes that arose from interactions between these avant-garde writers and a literary tradition often seen as conservative and culturally hegemonic. With essays that cover the canonical Beat authors-such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs-along with less well-known figures-including Kenneth Rexroth, Ed Sanders, and Diane di Prima-Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition brings long overdue attention to the Beat movement's formative appropriation of the Greek and Latin classics.
 

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sheila Murnaghan is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey.
Ralph M. Rosen is the Vartan Gregorian Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire.